Got that itch again and bought a Power Mac Quicksilver for MorphOS

[redrumloa]

Free time this holiday weekend and got that itch to play around with some retro computing. While having my coffee morning searched eBay local and Craigslist for a dirt cheap Power Mac. I found a Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) for $30. It has 800Mhz cpu, 256MB RAM and ATI Radeon 7500 GFX card. The guy didn't know or care to figure out the gfx card for the price, so I took a gamble it would be ATI and I was right.

I said I gave up my retro hobby and have almost auctioned off all my 8bit stuff, but I got the itch for MorphOS again. I'm going to install MorphOS demo and play with it for a few days. We'll see if this leads me down the same path it usually leads and I upgrade this to a monster with registered MorphOS

I have to give credit to the MorphOS team making the price of entry so damn cheap. A whim and $30 later I have a MorphOS capable box.

 

[Karlos]

You can take Red out of the group of Amiga enthusiasts, but you can't take the Amiga enthusiast out of Red

My next system is going to be something similar. I'm way too behind on the MorphOS side, not a single MOS 2.x machine to my name. Call myself an enthusiast? It's a disgrace I tell you.

 

[faethor]

I have a Blue&White G3 tower. It works. The SCSI harddrive is very loud and will likely need replacing soon. If someone wants to pay shipping it's yours.

 

[redrumloa]

I have a Blue&White G3 tower. It works. The SCSI harddrive is very loud and will likely need replacing soon. If someone wants to pay shipping it's yours.

No G3 support for MorphOS unfortunately. Nice offer.

 

[Karlos]

No G3 support for MorphOS unfortunately. Nice offer.

Are you sure? I seem to recall Nicholas saying that MorphOS 2 ran on his Pegasos 1. Having said that, G4 is clearly the better choice for MorphOS as there is a fair amount of AltiVec optimisation under the hood.

 

[adz]

Sounds similar to the G4 Power Mac I have sitting in storage, although mines not a quick silver and it's got an nVidia card and 1GB of RAM...

 

[martin trotter]

Are you sure? I seem to recall Nicholas saying that MorphOS 2 ran on his Pegasos 1. Having said that, G4 is clearly the better choice for MorphOS as there is a fair amount of AltiVec optimisation under the hood.

While a pegasos is G3 its quite a bit different to a Mac G3.

However someone over on morphzone.org forums has managed to get a mac cube running morphos with a bit of fiddling.

edit: it was a G4 cube sorry for the error

Martin

 

[martin trotter]

As to MOS in general its difficult to test as it slows down after 30 minutes to encourage you to register.
Yeah you can boot it and have a look around but the time limit is frustrating,

It is on sale at the moment though but you pay in euros.
I have a registered version running on my Mac mini G4 1.5ghz 64meg vram and it works quite nice dual booting with mac tiger.

I have also bought a powerbook 1.6ghz laptop which will probably run MOS in the next release or 2 but doesnt at the moment but mac os leopard is ok on it.

Martin

 

[redrumloa]

Are you sure? I seem to recall Nicholas saying that MorphOS 2 ran on his Pegasos 1. Having said that, G4 is clearly the better choice for MorphOS as there is a fair amount of AltiVec optimisation under the hood.

Yes it runs on Pegasos G3, I meant Power Mac G3 is not supported.

 

[redrumloa]

@martin trotter

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